Comments on: When the Story Does Not Fit the Facts http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/02/when-the-story-does-not-fit-the-facts.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:59:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: The other coyote http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/02/when-the-story-does-not-fit-the-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-16926 The other coyote Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:08:41 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7208#comment-16926 Hey coyote ~ I really like your charts, graphs, etc. I'm not particularly computer literate (but I can type 75 wpm - thank you, Mrs. Shelton!) so I don't know how to create them. I also completely agree with your assessment that the "sky is falling" rhetoric has become a self-fulfilling prophesy. Would you consider creating one of your cool charts with the Dow on one axis, and dates where Bush/Paulson and Obama (or a minion, like Geithner or Chu) opened their pie holes on the other? For fun, you could throw in votes in the House and Senate and final passage of the "stimulus" bill on the Obama axis. I can't remember major tumbles after Pelosi, Reid, Waxman or their ilk said something stupid, but since it's an every day occurance, that may be just white noise at this point. The other coyote Hey coyote ~

I really like your charts, graphs, etc. I’m not particularly computer literate (but I can type 75 wpm – thank you, Mrs. Shelton!) so I don’t know how to create them.

I also completely agree with your assessment that the “sky is falling” rhetoric has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Would you consider creating one of your cool charts with the Dow on one axis, and dates where Bush/Paulson and Obama (or a minion, like Geithner or Chu) opened their pie holes on the other?

For fun, you could throw in votes in the House and Senate and final passage of the “stimulus” bill on the Obama axis.

I can’t remember major tumbles after Pelosi, Reid, Waxman or their ilk said something stupid, but since it’s an every day occurance, that may be just white noise at this point.

The other coyote

]]> By: Michael Miller http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/02/when-the-story-does-not-fit-the-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-16916 Michael Miller Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:12:53 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7208#comment-16916 "Falling exports, not falling consumption, were the biggest single contributor to the overall drop of 3.8%." No one in Washington knew this? I can't believe that. And they rammed that stimulus package through Congress in record time. Now we know why they were in such a hurry. They had to get it done before the public had all the facts. A great victory for the new president? Hogwash. It was a flimflam. “Falling exports, not falling consumption, were the biggest single contributor to the overall drop of 3.8%.”

No one in Washington knew this? I can’t believe that.

And they rammed that stimulus package through Congress in record time. Now we know why they were in such a hurry. They had to get it done before the public had all the facts. A great victory for the new president? Hogwash. It was a flimflam.

]]> By: Lorenzo (from downunder) http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/02/when-the-story-does-not-fit-the-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-16904 Lorenzo (from downunder) Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:55:53 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7208#comment-16904 Spike in oil prices hits vulnerable economies starting global slowdown which helps trigger financial crisis already underway in part from collapse in regional US housing bubbles? (Or, more precisely, the collapse in the demand for houses as inflation-beating assets, which had been created by officials restricting land use in the "Zoned Zone" driving up prices by blocking quantity response to demand, since people <a href="http://www.newgeography.com/content/00512-moving-flyover-country" rel="nofollow">can and do move</a> from the "Zoned Zone" to "Flatland", undermining the demand for houses-as-houses in the "Zoned Zone".) Spike in oil prices hits vulnerable economies starting global slowdown which helps trigger financial crisis already underway in part from collapse in regional US housing bubbles? (Or, more precisely, the collapse in the demand for houses as inflation-beating assets, which had been created by officials restricting land use in the “Zoned Zone” driving up prices by blocking quantity response to demand, since people can and do move from the “Zoned Zone” to “Flatland”, undermining the demand for houses-as-houses in the “Zoned Zone”.)

]]> By: They Want More http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/02/when-the-story-does-not-fit-the-facts.html/comment-page-1#comment-16895 They Want More Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:49:08 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=7208#comment-16895 Talk about not fitting the facts, look at this: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22390 Talk about not fitting the facts, look at this:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22390

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